This work's first cello entrance is a veiled allusion to the hymn ‘They Who Leave All to God" leading the composer to comment later "Oh well, if nobody notices I suppose that's all right too." The first movement of this work does not use clarinets, piccolos, trumpets, tuba, 
This work's first cello entrance is a veiled allusion to the hymn ‘They Who Leave All to God" leading the composer to comment later "Oh well, if nobody notices I suppose that's all right too." The first movement of this work does not use clarinets, piccolos, trumpets, tuba, timpani, and most strikingly violins and that movement ends with the entrance of the harp with the phrase "they that sow in tears." In the finale the harp reappears, after vanishing since the middle of the second movement, playing its lowest note while the singers are on their highest note. The sixth movement beginning "For here we have no continuing city" ends with a notable fugue drawing from the three note motif that unifies the work, while this work opens with the text, "blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted" rather than the traditional prayers for the dead. Partially inspired by Robert Schumann's suicide attempt this work was written after the death of the composer's mother. For 10 points, name this choral work deriving its text from the Lutheran Bible by Johannes Brahms.
This work's first cello entrance is a veiled allusion to the hymn ‘They
A {German Requiem}